Joan Wood, E.I.T.

Staff Engineer I
Years of Experience:
6
Education & Licenses:

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 2019, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
Engineer-in-Training (E.I.T.), State of Ohio

Areas of Specialization:

Fitness-for-service (FFS) evaluations using API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 (API 579)
Fracture mechanics and brittle fracture screening
Advanced stress analysis including transient thermal/mechanical finite element analysis (FEA)
ASME Code compliance calculations for pressure vessels & piping
Turnaround engineering support

Overview:

Joan is a staff engineer with the Mechanical & Structural Engineering team at Equity Engineering.  As a member of this team, she performs FFS evaluations for in-service equipment and provides turnaround engineering support.  She is the responsible engineer for several of Equity’s Section 8 Engineering Practices (EPs) for heat exchanger-related items and attends the API Refining Standards meetings for the unfired standards of the Subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment (SCHTE).

Prior to Equity, Joan participated in two co-ops at Delta Systems, Inc., where she designed a streamlined changeover system for programming PCBs, improved a continuity tester by incorporating a date-coder and reducing changeovers, and redesigned the fixtures and structures used in a laser date coder system.  Additionally, she redesigned a series of marine switches, designed fixtures to aid in programming and measuring, and analyzed the data from force and IP67 tests that she carried out.  Joan also participated in a co-op at Moen, Inc., where she developed the on-platform trim limits and technical design review for 1-handle lavatory faucets, performed various lab tests, analyzed the resulting data, and provided solutions to problems.

Joan is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

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